In quest of the ordinary : lines of skepticism and romanticism / Stanley Cavell.

By: Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988Description: xiii, 200 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0226098176Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Philosophy in literature | Philosophy, American -- 19th century | Romanticism -- English-speaking countries | Skepticism | English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etcDDC classification: 810/.9/003 LOC classification: PS217.P45 | C38 1988
Contents:
At Berkeley The Mrs. Williams Beckman Lectures (1983) -- The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) -- Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (Terms as Conditions) -- Texts of Recovery (Coleridge, Wordsworth, Heidegger...) Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (A Reading of The Winter's Tale) -- At Stanford Conference: Reconstructing Individualism (1984) -- Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) -- Postscripts -- A. Skepticism and a Word concerning Deconstruction -- B. Poe's Perversity and the Imp (ulse) of Skepticism -- C. The Skeptical and the Metaphorical -- At Stanford The Tanner Lecture (1986) -- The Uncanniness of the Ordinary -- At Vienna Celebratory Lecture (1986) -- The Fantastic of Philosophy
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 189-195.

At Berkeley The Mrs. Williams Beckman Lectures (1983) -- The Philosopher in American Life (Toward Thoreau and Emerson) -- Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (Terms as Conditions) -- Texts of Recovery (Coleridge, Wordsworth, Heidegger...) Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (A Reading of The Winter's Tale) -- At Stanford Conference: Reconstructing Individualism (1984) -- Being Odd, Getting Even (Descartes, Emerson, Poe) -- Postscripts -- A. Skepticism and a Word concerning Deconstruction -- B. Poe's Perversity and the Imp (ulse) of Skepticism -- C. The Skeptical and the Metaphorical -- At Stanford The Tanner Lecture (1986) -- The Uncanniness of the Ordinary -- At Vienna Celebratory Lecture (1986) -- The Fantastic of Philosophy

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